The Register on MSN

Anthropic's Claude is learning Excel so you don't have to

Good luck to the 1,000 enterprise guinea pigs on the initial preview Anthropic has opened a waitlist for Claude for Excel, ...
MrExcel on MSN

Expert Insights: Streamlining Bill of Material Analysis in Excel

If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 ...
TechCrunch

Instagram head says company is not using your microphone to listen to you (with AI data, it won’t need to)

Instagram head Adam Mosseri posted on his account on Wednesday to dispel the myth that the social networking giant is actively “listening” to its users surreptitiously, in order to target them with ...
The Economist

The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom

THIS SPRING McKinsey made what seemed to be an extraordinarily bullish forecast of capital spending on the chips, data centres and energy to produce artificial intelligence (AI): $5.2trn worldwide in ...
ZDNet

Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them

Microsoft has launched AI agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The agents are available for business and individual subscribers. Now accessible on the web, the agents will expand to the desktop.
Wired

Inside the Nuclear Bunkers, Mines, and Mountains Being Retrofitted as Data Centers

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. It’s a sunny June day in southeast England. I’m driving along a quiet, rural road that stretches through the Kent ...
The Verge

Microsoft says this new cooling method could enable more powerful chips and efficient data centers

Figuring out how to keep a chip cool is one of the biggest challenges to designing a more powerful and sustainable chip. Microsoft says it’s making progress on a new solution. Figuring out how to ...
The Economist

People are using big data to try to predict Nobel laureates

IN YEARS GONE by, the wait for the announcement of winners of the Nobel prizes was a period of fun but largely uninformed speculation. The Nobel committees’ processes of choosing winners are so ...
The Shreveport Times

A Meta data center is coming to Louisiana. Why it will use up state's water, electricity

In December 2024, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, announced plans to construct a four million square foot data center campus in Northeast Louisiana. The $10 billion AI ...
TechCrunch

YouTube to use AI to help podcasters promote themselves with clips and Shorts

On Tuesday, YouTube introduced new tools for podcasters at its Made on YouTube live event in New York, including new ways to turn video podcasts into clips and YouTube Shorts and a new feature that ...
KQED

How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It

Halfway through the first year of President Donald Trump’s second administration, an expansion in operations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents has led to a 123% increase from 2024 in ...